Carlos Chagas
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Carlos Chagas
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Carlos Chagas (1879-1934), Brazilian bacteriologist. Chagas discovered the tropical parasitic disease named for him (Chagas disease) in 1909 while working in the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro. This disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is also called American trypanosomiasis. Chagas's 1903 doctoral thesis was on the haematology of malaria. Chagas was director of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute from 1917 to 1934, leading a number of public health campaigns. He was twice unsuccessfully nominated for the Nobel Prize (1913 and 1921). This photograph was published in December 1934 in 'Publicacoes Medicas'.
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